Country quotes

If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.

I got to where I couldn't listen to country radio. Country music is supposed to have steel and fiddle. When I hear country music, it should be country.

If you're black in this country, if you're a woman in this country, if you are any minority in this country at all, what could possibly possess you to vote Republican?

This country isn't a melting pot. Think of this country as a stir fry. That's what this country should be. A place where people are appreciated for who they are.

The Republican Party is bringing out here onto the floor of Congress an all-out assault on the protection of the rights of people who work in the fields of our country, in the factories of our country, in the offices of our country.

To stop terrorists before the strike, we must do three things: deny them entry into the country, curtail their freedom of action inside the country, and deprive them of material and moral support from within the country.

Country music has changed tremendously, so what now is considered country was not considered country at that time. We were doing stuff that probably could have been called country music today, but would certainly have not have fit in at that time.

Poetry is a natural energy resource of our country.It has no energy crisis, possessing a potential that will last as long as the country. Its power is equal to that of any country in the world.

Canada's a huge country, so to be able to unite the country through communication satellite technology or to be able to observe it through remote sensing technology from space is a natural fit for a country like Canada.

The people of Canada have worked hard to build a country that opens its doors to include all, regardless of their differences; a country that respects all, regardless of their differences; a country that demands equality for all, regardless of their differences.

Only he can understand what a farm is, what a country is, who shall have sacrificed part of himself to his farm or country, fought to save it, struggled to make it beautiful. Only then will the love of farm or country fill his heart.

Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country.

In an underdeveloped country don't drink the water. In a developed country don't breathe the air.

I am confident that I can serve my country without being involved as the president of the country now.

While we are guarding the country, we must accept being the guardian of the finest ethics. The country needs it and we must do it.

France was an occupied country, a country that surrendered and was left without the right to choose.

If you fall in love with a country and its people, that makes any country warm to you.

North Americans don't understand... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.

One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.

I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws?

In our country today, very few children are raised to believe that their principal destiny is to serve their family, their country, or God.

Then, in that hour of deliverance, my heart spoke. Does not such a country, and such defenders of their country, deserve a song?

If it was Europe, I just picked a country that I hadn't been to, but I didn't try to check up on what was going on in the country or anything like that. I just went and had a good time and met a lot of very nice people who are still my friends.

Clearly it is better that, when someone is wanted by the international police, and this person travels, and a country knows about it, that country reports the fact.

The United States is a big country but unfortunately it seems it has the brain of a little bird not befitting the greatness of the country.

American people have the ability to laugh at themselves. It is one of the things that makes this country the great country that it is.

It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals.

Country people give me more than writers, and country places than towns.

I know General Grant better than any other person in the country can know him. It was my duty to study him, and I did so day and night, when I saw him and when I did not see him, and now I tell you what I know, he cannot govern this country.

Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.

Well, we play Country music; we're just not sure what country it is.

To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

This country consumes more pornography than any other country in the world.

No politician has ever yet been able to rule his country, nor has any country ever yet been able to face the world, upon the principles of the Sermon on the Mount.

I thank all of those who weren't born in this country for coming here and making a contribution to Australia. We are the least discriminatory country in the world, in my view.

The country experience was more of a departure. When you consider my education and my upbringing, you can see that was more of country rock outgrowth of my popular music aspirations.

Basically I am a private individual who has concerns about his country and who has resources that give me the privilege - and responsibility - to do something to help my country if I can.

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.

Being married to a daughter of India is a natural complement of my being in this country for 30 years. My roots are very much in this country, even though I remain a Westerner.

But the truth of the matter is that there is there is an opportunity for them to participate in the economic and political future of the country and certainly in the security life of the country.

What happened? The Country got sick of it and said, Enough is enough. And all over the Country we saw springing up community organizations determined to do something about this terrible menace of drugs.

Belgium thinks that however great the peril which a country might have to undergo under the system which we seek to establish here, that country ought to do its duty.

But this country is a great country and will always rebound.

And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.

This country has a complex about age. It's unbelievable. If you're over thirty, you've had it in this country.

I live way out in the country, in truck-country.